I am trying to prepare my Zapplication. I understand the Booth Photo. I am a photographer and don't know if photographers submit images of their digital files or if they have to take pictures of there prints in frames? I have seen the images of pottery, jewelry, etc. Please help. Thanks.
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Good to know. Thanks Larry!
ZAPP's tutorial tells you black borders are no longer necessary but they don't tell you that they add the black borders squaring your images and possibly degrading your JPEGs when you apply to the better shows that project.
It's always best to prepare your images in the original ZAPP format so they don't get messed with when you apply.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Ah, thank you! I notice that ZAPP has an excellent tutorial for preparing images for submission, by the way. Step by step including screen shots from Photoshop, etc. I had never noticed this until this conversation made me wonder about our submissions (which have not been properly sized). Oops. Apparently many juries are quite forgiving.
The photograph will have mat and frame added within the constraints of the 1920 square image so the actual photograph will project or be viewed smaller as it contains extraneous detail not needed for jurying.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Larry, why will his jury images be smaller than his competitors' images?
The easiest way to be sure your image is right for ZAPP (or web) viewing is to use the "Save for Web" option in your image processing program after you've edited and resized it per Robert's instructions. That will put the file into sRGB color space no matter what color space it was shot in.
Thanks Larry...! I appreciate the detailed explanation. I have a Nikon D3000 and need to make sure it is set to default for sRGB.
sRGB is the default color space for viewing images in a browser, for digital projection, or for printing at any of the big box stores. It's the only way an image can be seen accurately for jurying. But the color space tag needs to be embedded in the JPEG for it to display in that color space. Though browsers need the images to be in the sRGB color space to display accurately, an untagged image is treated as having an sRGB tag in a Windows browser. MAC browsers try to be more accurate and don't display untagged images as having the sRGB tag. Therefore for the best (most color accurate) jury images, they need to be in the sRGB color space and have the sRGB tag embedded.
Point and shoot digital cameras capture JPEGs using the sRGB color space by default. Higher end cameras give the user a choice between sRGB and Adobe RGB, which captures more color but looks muted and washed out in a web browser. Shooting RAW allows the user to apply the color space to the image on converting the RAW file to a useable image format.
If you're asking what a color space is, here's the definition from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
What is sRGB color space?
Thanks Robert and Larry.
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